I read Brunson's "Super System", around the same age as you read the book by Slim. I recall that Brunson mentioned him a few times, as if they were buddies who made wild gambling bets with anyone on the spot. And other personal anecdotes. Apparently, people couldn't wait to lose their money to them to be able to brag that they did. But, the book was very light on the game-theory approach - Brunson didn't subscribe to that approach. There was more in the university library - by students who did thus simulations - and in the game-theory books after the 30's by way of a few examples applied to poker in general, from which it's possible to solve the more complex cases. Was maybe a decade, or two, after, that poker professionals Sklansky, and Greenstein, and a couple of others, started writing extensively about the game-theory approach.
I studied French for a few years in high school, and, later on, on my own, studied some German. I, too, have a German name, but, one which my mother had anglicized shortly after my birth. I took mostly only science courses (with mechanical engineering minor) in university. Many more of the high-nineties in math. The co-op or work, five-year, program, by alternating university terms with thus work placements was a bit different in that the more-academic students preferred the straight-up program of four years, with summers off. But, I had become more interested in applying what I was learning, at the time, to try to figure out where it was leading me. The thing that I realized much later on is that the best way to learn something is to forget it a few times, to have to further develop it. I worked, for a research consulting company, on satellite infrared detection of tanks buried under snow in the Arctic, under the guise of "search and rescue", and, later, for the university, when I shared an office with a civil engineering professor, for about a year. Back then, a lot of that sort of software was yet to be written. Oh, and in between, for a national meteorological center, in Toronto. So, I met lots of interesting and very accomplished characters, even before graduating. Used up the scholarship. The only thing I had to pay for was the textbooks.
My philosophy is that every one must try to figure out life/death for themselves, but, only one version is right. And, if you don't, well, it's not yours. Another thing that I always kept in the back of my head, to always add on to whatever I thus discovered.
Anyway, it was fun to make the various strictly numerological connections here, the last few years. Even your own forum numerals seemed to match mine, on the end.
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And, the mention of a 3.8 grade point average.
I realized, later today, that the second file's size of 587.5 KB ---> 5875 = (5^3 X 47) sort of relates to the Reaper's 555, down the middle, and, this post's spot #74. You had to have been at the gematria forum to see the repeated appearance of the 555. And, my post #69 goes with spot #74 = (1 + 72 + 1), which is the combination of years that goes with 1961 with 7, and 2, reversed to go with 9, and 6, reversed. 72 alone is July 2, but, 69 alone is June 30, in terms of a square root of 900, as the alternate middle day of the year. It was fun to put stuff out there, and, then, look for the thus connections, and, ultimately, work to a little fun theory of my very own thus numerals. My contribution to the otherwise useless mindlessness of such forums. Last night's post time of 7:27 was another fluke, but still a surprise. Now I wonder what this one's will be. Ha. Oh, not that great, I don't know. Then, again, I'll have to think about it.
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